Uli
@Uli@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on What a wonderful world we live in! 13 hours ago:
He’s moved on to another plane.
- Comment on Maybe the most 14 hours ago:
But the sentence works when put in this order:
972 461 5380
Someone braver than me should dial that number.
- Comment on Number neighbors! 1 day ago:
I can believe this - that Trump was paying Epstein for pedophile shit and Clinton never got involved. I also find it pretty easy to believe that despite never being involved with Epstein, Bill Clinton is a scumbag and a rapist, considering the numerous allegations against him:
…wikipedia.org/…/Bill_Clinton_sexual_assault_and_…
It’s not proof per se, but with politicians these days, I believe it’s most accurate to find them dirty and corrupt until proven otherwise via their legislative actions (to wit, I’m not holding my breath vis-à-vis 99% of Congress).
- Comment on What more you want? 5 days ago:
“That line’s not supposed to ring. Who is it?”
“Sir, it sounds like… you know that movie from the 2010s, the one with the cave people?”
“Ice Age?”
“No. No, not that one. It’s got Nick Cage in it.”
Grug: “He actually goes by Nicolas.”
“What?”
“What?”
Grug: “You can say Nick, it’s fine. You’ve gotta get us out of here!”
- Comment on Tis the way 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s me, I’m the buyer. At any expense, I must possess all the apes. I’m here from the future, to spread the word that if we allow the genral public to have ownership over this level of stupidity, it will result in a runaway moron effect. And if left unchecked, then in my time, four hundred years from now, when we make first contact with other spacefaring civilizations, they’re going to think we’re really lame.
- Comment on Papa I'm scared 1 week ago:
Vonnegut is my favorite, the one I model my own writing style after. Galopagos is my jam.
- Comment on Max Is Changing Its Name to (Get This!) HBO Max 1 week ago:
Next year, they will start a loyalty program where they ship cardboard boxes to anyone who wants to ship things out of their home. This will coincide with their rebranding to “Home Box Office.”
- Comment on I fucking hate modern design and modern designers. 2 weeks ago:
Use a script on another device to constantly type a space and then a backspace into the text input box at every moment of every day except for when you are actually composing a message.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, 2 tines and 4 handle is a pretty good fork, I’ll admit. I just worry about the concave shape of the top side of the handle causing the edges to dig into my fingers with long-term use.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
Those prongs are fine. The handle, though, it’s like having a huge counterweight on the back of the utensil. I can imagine liking it if it’s always been that way or if you have big hands. Otherwise, handle number 5 is the clear improvement - no sharp edges, properly balanced, not shaped like a wedge. Could hold that fork for days.
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
The will of the people
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
It is clear to me that the only explanation for your preference is nostalgia.
- Comment on The pipeline 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I want to feel that bone in my mouth. Put that bone inside me, chicken. Let me suck the meat from your bone.
This comment brought to you by manly men who are straight and also not gay.
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 5 weeks ago:
She should swallow a hydrogen cyanide capsule that only dissolves if triggered by the detection of radioactive decay.
Who knows what will happen to that cat?
- Comment on An oldie but a goodie 5 weeks ago:
Well, it gets confusing when your mom is a famous stock photo hand model.
- Comment on ＼(゜o゜;)/ 5 weeks ago:
We’re gonna need a cuter boat.
- Comment on Anon notices lazy writing 1 month ago:
So, it turns out JRR Tolkien was just Tolkien out his Rs.
- Comment on Give us your craziest ocean facts. 🦑 1 month ago:
Well, now that we know what’s out there, I think we should focus our efforts on putting a big sea monster into the ocean.
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 1 month ago:
Free popcorn and squeezy cheese for everyone. Free them! Narf!
- Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux? 1 month ago:
I don’t like the rootkit. I do everything I possibly can on Linux aside from the one game that requires it. That said, since they started using the rootkit, there has been a steep drop-off in bots in the game. As in I don’t see any anymore. So, annoying and a huge security risk? Absolutely. Dubious? Maybe? Depends on what you mean.
- Comment on light pollution 1 month ago:
Yeah, that’s what they do in Hawaii currently, with amber LEDs that mimic the tone of the old sodium-vapor lamps.
It’s definitely an improvement. I would love to see both the matrix and the amber spectrum applied at the same time, that’s like peak utopia for me right there.
- Comment on light pollution 1 month ago:
Or maybe areas like Hawaii where preventing light pollution is of critical importance? I feel like a lot of mass-produced technologies face their main hurdle at manufacturing and if early adopters fund those initial manufacturing costs, the price can then come down quite a lot. But ultimately, it’s mostly wishful thinking, how I would want the world to be, seeing the issues all around us now.
- Comment on light pollution 1 month ago:
I had a thought last night. Some new cars have “matrix” headlights, which will detect oncoming drivers and use an LCD matrix to block out areas that would blind the oncoming driver.
I was looking at the shadow cast on my back door from a streetlight a couple blocks away and thinking it’s a very useful light for people walking on the street. Just not for me standing in my backyard or the birds sleeping in my trees.
I wonder if we could start applying this active matrix technology to streetlights. Each time one is set up, we could program it to illuminate all the walkways but not much else. Just an idea.
- Comment on Asking the important questions. 2 months ago:
That’s the same way they did it on Mythbusters.
- Comment on Kettle Chips 2 months ago:
- Comment on cherry pickers 2 months ago:
But that’s cherry picking!
- Comment on Not the same 3 months ago:
Yeah, somehow it looked AI before I clicked into it for the high res version, something about the way the guy’s face was drawn. And when I saw the high res, it was really obvious, because the pupils are askew in a way a true artist would not have chosen. And as you say, the stippling pattern is typical of AI. Weird that our brains seem to be some of the best competitors in the arms race between creating and identifying AI images.
- Comment on Too bad so many don't understand this simple truth 4 months ago:
This is worryingly similar to how toddlers react when I try to teach them how to tie their shoes
- Comment on Cows cows cows 4 months ago:
My cat just watched this. I think he was confused, but he had a good time.
- Comment on Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Bias 5 months ago:
Hell, I might be a CFO now and I’ve failed to notice! Hold on, let me check… No… No, I’ve just managed to burn a microwave dinner again.